Transactions on replicated data in Mobile Ad Hoc Nets - and some further issues of large scalable networks

Abstract

In the Coco/Da project1 data centric middleware functions for Mobile Ad Hoc Nets have been
investigated and developed. Transactional support2 and data replication are important
functions of traditional data management systems. Using a volatile communication
infrastructure, replication plays an even more important role than in fixed wired systems in
order to increase availability of data. Keeping replica consistent, however, is more involved
with unreliable communication.